USVI - Sarm Joan Lillian Heslop - Missing From Siren Song Moored Off Coast of St. John, Mar 2021 #2

[supernothing]

I've only skimmed through the first pages here I apologise if thos has been asked..

I am interested in the alarm from the anchor sounding. If which I suspect Sarm met fowl play/s9meone she knew if you get me...

Does anyone have any hypothesis on what caused that alarm to sound? If, and against just one potential of many I have considered... if she was deceased on board the boat, and the dingy was used to dump her remains away from the owner's boat... could any likely actions involved in doing so (boarding the dinghy, etc etc. Then returning to the main boat, trigger the alarm?

Was it a risky deliberately act to try and set up an alibi if the other boats had seen anything suspect. Who would be stupid enough to murder and dump a romantic partner in the sea then trigger their own anchor alarm. My knowledge of sailing at sea is zero, Nada... and I am aware my suggestions and questions might be irrelevant and I worry extremely stupid to anyone with even a little knowledge (or common sense ...!) But it's been one part I can't stop returning to Andy best net is it was accidentally triggered after Sarm was murdered..

Also any further information on the potential "human intestines and gastric organs" that were photographed following her disappearance by a sailor?

I am devastated for Sarm, and her film and friends who are desperate for answers and justice or just some type of closure. Whether it was a accident with no involvement from anyone aboard that ended with her In the water, or it was no accident. Both scenarios she is in the water, possibly drifted away from land until sealife are responsible for consuming large parts of the remains, or the weird floating stuff is not human entrails.

Either way any remains not laying at the bott of the ocean or consumed by goodness knows what. Decomposition could be fast... I home person of interest is questions and slips something up. Sarm, and her loved ones.deserve answers

 

[ginnyw]

It seems that no alarm went off and this was another lie from Mr Bane, to explain how he had woken up and hence found Sarm missing. Reason this seems clear is that, as per the BBC documentary, neither of the other boats moored right next to Siren Song heard any anchor alarms going off in the night - and these things are loud. The next morning, one of the men from an adjacent boat remarked that everything was extremely quiet, and he would never have known that a woman was missing.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

If Mr Bane killed her, surely he would have waited as long as possible before contacting anyone. For example, he could have contacted the police in the morning, saying he had awakened at 8 am and realised Sarm was missing. He could even have left it for several days.

 

[rvlvr]

If Mr Bane killed her, surely he would have waited as long as possible before contacting anyone. For example, he could have contacted the police in the morning, saying he had awakened at 8 am and realised Sarm was missing. He could even have left it for several days.

A really good point, this.

And regarding what those present on the other boats did (or didn’t) hear, the problem when trying to make a case against Bane is that no one has reported hearing an argument, a struggle, screams, or anything to suggest a body was being disposed of and a crime scene was being cleaned up, yet - and I’m paraphrasing here - one of the guys on the other boats said in the BBC documentary he’d have heard a splash if someone had fallen overboard, even if he was asleep. So it’s peculiar he apparently heard nothing amiss.

All we have to work with here is CCTV footage showing a couple heading quite normally back to their dinghy in the evening, with one half of said couple appearing quite drunk. If foul play occurred later, once they were back on their yacht, no one apparently heard it. Someone apparently heard a couple on a dinghy much later in the night but there’s no evidence it was Sarm and Bane, and why would they have been out in the dinghy again at that time?

It’s easy to make assumptions in this case but there’s such a lack of evidence. I think only a seriously thorough search of the yacht could reveal something that might move this case forward.

 

[MsMarple]

Much would have been cleared up if Bane had simply allowed a forensic search of the boat. He could even have had a lawyer present as witness.

IMO Innocent people don’t wait hours until calling the Coast Guard for help searching the water. Innocent people don’t refuse the police to search the boat for a lost woman.

A dog walker later reported hearing a scream around 1am. While that may or may not be relevant, local LE dropped the ball from the very beginning. How hard would it have been to seek a search warrant?

Anyhow, chances are slim that Sarm will ever be found. And IMO Bane got away with murder. JMO

Dog walker 'heard a scream' the night British woman went missing

Sarm Heslop, 41, from Southampton, was last seen aboard her 44-year-old boyfriend Ryan Bane's yacht on March 7 when it was moored off Saint John.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[MsMarple]

It seems that no alarm went off and this was another lie from Mr Bane, to explain how he had woken up and hence found Sarm missing. Reason this seems clear is that, as per the BBC documentary, neither of the other boats moored right next to Siren Song heard any anchor alarms going off in the night - and these things are loud. The next morning, one of the men from an adjacent boat remarked that everything was extremely quiet, and he would never have known that a woman was missing.

Yes, Bane never even bothered to alert neighboring boats that his girlfriend may have gone overboard. People in love don’t act like that. Innocent people don’t work hard to control the scene. Imagine how much area could have been checked in those early hours with multiple searchers scanning the water. So why didn’t he bother? JMO

 

[Curiousobserver]

If Mr Bane killed her, surely he would have waited as long as possible before contacting anyone. For example, he could have contacted the police in the morning, saying he had awakened at 8 am and realised Sarm was missing. He could even have left it for several days.

This is the part of this that makes me think with a small probability that his story might be true.

The video clearly shows an affectionate couple, holding hands with one person seemingly tipsy. She may have fallen overboard or tried to go for a swim and his later denial of a search could have been because he had drugs on board.

 

[rvlvr]

This is the part of this that makes me think with a small probability that his story might be true.

The video clearly shows an affectionate couple, holding hands with one person seemingly tipsy. She may have fallen overboard or tried to go for a swim and his later denial of a search could have been because he had drugs on board.

Indeed, there are all sorts of ‘innocent’ explanations as to why he possibly didn’t want the boat searched. And if she truly fell overboard then from his perspective it’s likely he didn’t see the need for police to come aboard and poke around. Police should’ve searched it anyway imo but their incompetence is hardly Bane’s fault.